02 February,2009 06:40 AM IST | | A correspondent
"I shouldn't be alive. She was going to be my wife," are the words of remorse from the 22 year old youth, Aquino Martis, who brutally stabbed his girlfriend to death last week.
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Martis, who is recuperating in Bhagwati Hospital, told the Mira Road police that he couldn't believe what he had done to Paloma Fernandes, his 26 year old BPO worker girlfriend and fellow Mira Road resident.
The unemployed man had knifed Fernandes to death after she had returned from work last week and then turned the knife on himself.u00a0
"Aquino was supposed to be discharged on Sunday but doctors said that he was still suffering from some pain in the stomach after he took his meals. They have decided to keep him back for a few more days," said investigating officer Mustaq Sheikh, Mira Road police.
Sheikh added that Martis had remained largely unresponsive to their questioning when they visited him at the hospital.
"He was in shock and kept on saying that he shouldn't be here when Paloma was dead. He said that he regretted what he had done and kept saying that she was going to be his wife. We will take him into custody after he is discharged," said Sheikh.
Sheikh added that preliminary investigations had ruled out any other motive for murder apart from the couple's fight over Fernandes' blocked ATM card.
